A demonstration in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners, Nablus, May 14 2014 (Photo: Activestills)

Communist Party of Israel: No to administrative detention

By the end of April 2014, more than 5,000 Palestinian prisoners (in fact POWs who are denied such status) were held in Israeli prisons. According to Addameer (Prisoner’s Support and Human Rights Association), approximately 190 of those POWs are under continued administrative detention, which is detention with no charge or trial. Some of them have…

PHR: Objection to the proposed amendment to the Prisons Act

Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) calls to call upon the Attorney general and the Ministry of Health to withdraw their support of the proposed amendment to the law:  “Amendment to the Prisons Act  (Preventing  Damages due to Hunger Strikes), 2013.” According to PHR, this proposed amendment incorporates significant violations of human rights and medical ethics; it provides a legislative foundation…

Israeli activists and African asylum seekers jailed in Holot detention center protest outside Saharonim prison in solidarity with African asylum seekers on hunger strike, January 18, 2014. About 50 African asylum seekers have been on hunger strike for two weeks (Photo: Activestills)

Human rights organizations call on the government to recognize the rights of asylum seekers

Human rights organizations: Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, Hotline for Refugees and Migrants and the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network, call on the Israeli government to recognise and protect the needs and rights of asylum seekers in its territory. Israel is home to about 53,000 African asylum seekers. According to the Ministry of Interior (MOI), 49,000 of…

Palestinian and Israeli organizations condemn lack of accountability for torture of detainees

The Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC), along with Adalah, Public Committee Against Torture in Israel and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, express their outrage at the death of Arafat Jaradat, 30, which, according to the autopsy report of Dr Saber al-‘Aloul, Director of the Palestinian Medico-Legal Institute, was caused by torture and ill-treatment inflicted while…